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Swift Literary Festival—Pop-Up Event

Join the Ames Writers Collective for our Swift Literary Festival, a Pop-Up event, on Sunday, September 25th at the annual Octagon Art Festival. (10 AM to 4 PM)

Music & Conversation Between Friends

It's our anniversary! Join us on October 1st for a celebratory evening featuring authors Tom Montgomery Fate and John T. Price and poet and vocalist, Debra Marquart and The Bone People.

Part 1—Words Meet Art & Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy

Christian Petersen Art Museum 603 Morrill Road, Ames, IA, United States

Words Meet Art, an outreach program of the Ames Writers Collective, is a literary arts event demonstrating through words how art, used as a writing prompt, can invoke feelings, trigger memories, and inspire conversations across divides and demographics. For inspiration, writers will interact with the Harriet Bart exhibition at the Christian Petersen Art Museum...